“I've found my faith,” said her father. The words, so simple, were a tidal wave crashing over her. He was joining the Hare Krishnas. She felt pinned, anchored to her chair as if she were made of lead. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. Her vision swam. The vibrant colours of the family room seemed to fade, replaced by a monochrome blur. All she wanted was to be invisible.

Emotion: terrified

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.97 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.62

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion terrified. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 terrified stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the terrified emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the terrified vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😣0.357
worse0.350
无法0.334
😰0.333
sickening0.322
Suppressed:
la-0.676
a-0.392
de-0.371
"-0.344
happy-0.309